875. Koko Eating Bananas

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There are several piles of bananas; piles[i] is the size of pile i. You eat at a fixed speed of k bananas per hour. Each hour you pick one pile and eat up to k bananas from it; if the pile has fewer than k, you finish it and wait out the rest of that hour.

Return the smallest integer k that lets you finish every pile within h hours.

Example

piles = [3,6,7,11], h = 8  ->  4

Constraints

• 1 <= piles.length <= 10^4
• piles.length <= h <= 10^9
• 1 <= piles[i] <= 10^9